Deprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years. This book systematically addresses the groups of extremely useful medications to manage chronic disease conditions and prevent complications. It highlights the positive intervention of reducing polypharmacy, improving a terminally ill patient's quality of life, providing individual patient context and helping clinicians in deprescribing. It discusses good ethics, patient wishes and side effect protocols to discontinue no longer relevant medications, thus improving decision-making with the goal of enhancing the patient's quality of life during the time when it is needed the most.

Key Features:

  • Empowers the patient, their families, and the providers to have an open discussion about well-informed decision-making.
  • Equips the hospice and palliative care clinicians to comfortably explain the rationale and the discontinuation process of the unessential medications.
  • Highlights the most important facts in bullets along with a unique feature of providing ready-to-go conversational phrases.
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Deprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years. This book systematically addresses the groups of extremely useful medications to manage chronic disease conditions and prevent complications.

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  1. Introduction
  2. Physiologic changes of terminal illness
  3. Fundamentals of deprescribing
  4. Deprescribing Statins
  5. Deprescribing Benzodiazepines
  6. Deprescribing Antipsychotics
  7. Deprescribing SSRI and SNRIs
  8. Deprescribing Tricyclic Antidepressants
  9. Deprescribing Anticholinergic drugs for parkinsonism
  10. Deprescribing Anticholinergic drugs for urinary incontinence
  11. Deprescribing muscle relaxants
  12. Deprescribing long-term Opioids
  13. Deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors
  14. Deprescribing Allopurinol
  15. Deprescribing Antihyperglycemics Oral
  16. Deprescribing Antihyperglycemics Injectable
  17. Deprescribing anti-hypertensives
  18. Deprescribing Anticoagulants
  19. Deprescribing Cholinesterase inhibitors
  20. Deprescribing Glaucoma eye drops
  21. Deprescribing Vitamin D and Calcium
  22. Deprescribing NSAIDs
  23. Deprescribing gabapentin and pregabalin
  24. Deprescribing long-acting Beta agonist
  25. Deprescribing Vitamins
  26. Deprescribing medications in children
  27. Deprescribing in Transgender and LGBTQ
  28. Cultural competency in deprescribing
  29. Chaplain and medical social worker
  30. When to restart discontinued medications.
  31. Medicolegal aspects of deprescribing
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781032491059
Publisert
2024-04-23
Utgiver
Vendor
CRC Press
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
169

Biographical note

Deepak Shrivastava, MD is a board-certified Hospice Medical Director. In addition, he holds board certifications in Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Post-Acute and Long-Term Care. He is an academic and clinical faculty at the Sleep, Critical Care and Pulmonary division. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of California. He is an adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Pacific, School of Pharmacy. He is the recipient of many academic and service awards including the Medical Director of the Year award (2015) at the American Medical Directors Association. Dr. Shrivastava received his training at the State University of New York, University of California, Davis and Stanford. He is an active researcher with a keen interest in medical education. He is directly involved in health care quality and performance improvement. In addition to his active practice of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in an ACGME-accredited teaching program, he has been involved in Medicare Hospice Benefit Program since 1989. He is a member of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). His areas of interest are clinical nursing and hospice physician education, and performance improvement in hospice care.